An impressively large group of us met at the Wyndham Gardens Conference Center for the April 10 meeting. They had no piano so President Greg offered to sing solo, an offer that was met with a few groans. A better option was aadopted – Past President Ingrid Sheldon led us in the Pledge of Allegiance. […]

Wednesday, April 3rd’s Rotary Club of Ann Arbor’s meeting was teetering on “standing-room-only”.   With 99 in attendance, despite the change in venue, I think it is safe to say “Hello and Welcome Back” to our snowbirds!  On a sadder note, it was the RCAA’s first official meeting without the amazing Mr. Ackenhusen.  John, you will […]

Huron Valley Habitat for Humanity is the largest H4H chapter in the country.   When James Hannah spoke at our lunch meeting a few weeks ago, he mentioned the Homes Tour and several people expressed interest.   If you are interested in what Habitat is up to, they are having a Home Tour on Wednesday, April 10 […]

On Saturday March 30, 6 Rotarians, 1 guest and 2 future Habitat for Humanity (H4H) homeowners were on a job site in Ypsilanti for our first workday.    The projects for the day were to remove a brick wall from the basement as well as “energy enveloping” in the upstairs which means caulking all wood […]

Dear Fellow Rotarians, I have been asked to succeed Melissa Stricherz as Coordinator of the Volunteer Program for the 2019 Rotary Club Golf and Tennis Outing at Travis Pointe Country Club scheduled for 9/9/19. The event has enabled the Rotary Club to fund numerous successful efforts to provide assistance to at-risk children, disabled children, and […]

(Notes by Nishta Bahtia, photos by Fred Beutler except where noted.) President Greg called the meeting to order at 12:30, we started with God Bless America. With a nod to the day’s speaker and the subject, Eric Lipson led with an invocation for which he chose a speech Haile Selassie of Ethiopia gave before the […]

Rotary Proud! March proved to be a month of action for the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor.  Our monthly meeting average was still a little low at 84 (27.5%), but a definite improvement over February.  However, this percentage should not bring us down, for the engagement numbers are quite astounding!  When including the first quarter’s […]

Greetings Rotarians! We will be meeting across the street from Weber’s next week at the Wyndham Garden, 2900 Jackson Ave. Please drive past the front entrance and you will see a “Banquet” door. Also, if you keep driving around to the back there is another “Banquet” entrance. All other details pertaining to the meeting will […]

On Tuesday, March 26, I attended the meeting of the Destin FL club. It meets at 7:15am in a local country club with a breakfast buffet for $12. The club has 55 members and a large portion of them were there. With the speaker (owner of a local brewpub), two guests and two Visiting Rotarians, […]

Winter wound down with our April 20 meeting the day of the Vernal equinox. it was a gloomy day but Brendan Black lightened our mood with a very bad joke and then an Inspiration that drew parallels between the life skills our speaker Coach Berenson instilled in his hockey players and our Rotary MOTTO. And […]